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I have played a lot of games in my time, but I only ever played games at my house, I never really went to friends' places to sample alternate consoles' offerings. As a result I started off playing some very lowkey mac shareware games, went to the SNES, the PS1, PS2, Gamecube, PS3 and then just hung around on the PC since then. I have missed plenty of games that are taken as the common experience of gaming, such as: Doom, Quake, Literally Every Pre "The Walking Dead" adventure game (except Broken Sword 2), All the Halos, Mario Bros. 2 and 3 and all the World games, Ocarina of Time, Half Life 2 System Shock 2,. That's just a quick sampling of games I know that (some) people consider integral gaming classics but have not broken into my life for one reason or another. I want a thread for people to make the case for games they think are unmissable. I mean literally unmissable, not just "Oh yeah it's really good". I want games that people will feel bad over me missing out on them. Fair warning, aging games will be a bit of an issue. I started Half Life 1 a while back and though it was enjoyable, the clunkiness of it did make me really appreciate the difference between control of it and modern FPS games. I didn't think the game was bad or worthless as a result but it certainly contributed to me getting distracted from the game and setting it aside.